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Apparently Publishers Marketplace is the bee-all-and-end-all of the US market, but it costs, and I already pay for Querytracker (which I love because the paid version offers stats which helps me who to query and who might respond - I can manage...

Thanks for starting this thread @Lakeland Waffler . I was thinking it would be good to have a thread that's encouraging and supportive for those who are submitting. I'm about to wade into that lake in the next week or two, and am girding my loins...

The whole Royal Road, Inkitt, Webnovel brigade is increasingly becoming a predatory minefield. There was a recent hoo-ha on RR with a publisher called Shadowlight Press snapping up authors and plying them with contracts that included clauses...

Thanks for starting this thread @Lakeland Waffler . I was thinking it would be good to have a thread that's encouraging and supportive for those who are submitting. I'm about to wade into that lake in the next week or two, and am girding my loins...

Thanks for starting this thread @Lakeland Waffler . I was thinking it would be good to have a thread that's encouraging and supportive for those who are submitting. I'm about to wade into that lake in the next week or two, and am girding my loins...

Please. Thanks.

The whole Royal Road, Inkitt, Webnovel brigade is increasingly becoming a predatory minefield. There was a recent hoo-ha on RR with a publisher called Shadowlight Press snapping up authors and plying them with contracts that included clauses...

Good idea. I would like a thread on contests and submissions. I used to get a steady supply from another writing group that I no longer belong to. It cost about 60.00 a month and I decided Litopia was far better value. The one thing I think we...

+1 for Authors Publish, they also do a free ebook walking you through the process of lit mag submissions if it's something you've never done before (which I hadn't, and was intimidated by). Have now had a handful of poems published which feels...

There are obviously people still getting picked up by agents and sold to publishers so it's possible, but think like an agent. Do you actually have something you can stand on a street corner and flog? In a way the trad market is doing you a...

I've learnt so much in the 7 years I've been on Litopia. I flew in the dark the 20 years before that, arrogant enough that I could do it all on my own. I've learned that's impossible. I've read it takes 6 to 10 years to find your voice and...

I think I’m somewhere near the same point myself and I agree about the fear of sending it to the agents at the top of the list. ‘Cause when they’re gone they’re gone and then what? Self publishing, I guess but that’s fine. My husband can’t...

Also, it feels personal, but really it's such an impersonal process, at least at the start. What means everything to me, means nothing to the agent's assistant working through a pile of submissions. I can't take it personally. Just got to try...